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Did very early versions of Kotlin not require `@` for annotations?

<https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/commit/5cecaa6f87e68e4de94015c397ecaca7eccd257e>

Yeah, in the early days there was an attempt to merge the concepts of annotations (e.g. `@Before`, `@Deprecated`) and modifiers (e.g. `public`, `abstract`). I don't remember all the details on why that was reversed, but there were probably some good reasons.

I found an old blog post about it: <https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2015/08/modifiers-vs-annotations/|https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2015/08/modifiers-vs-annotations/>

That’s really cool! Thanks for sharing!